Ignore certificate errors when requesting a URL in Java

Question

I\'m trying to print a URL (without having a browser involved at all) but the URL is currently throwing the following:

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: 
         


        

Answer 1

If it is the same server that you will be contacting each time, it might be okay to simply trust this one certificate by adding it to the trust store. I wouldn't add this to the default cacerts file, but you can make your own keystore and specify it through the javax.net.ssl.trustStore system property.

Lastly, if you want to disable PKIX checking completely (which you should only do if you understand that this will compromise security quite a lot) the only way is to implement your own SSL context and trust manager as erickson has suggested.